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Grasmere 2010

Author: Gravil, Richard

A selection of keynote lectures and short papers from the 40th Anniversary Wordsworth Summer Conference

Contents

Simon Bainbridge, ‘The Power of Hills’: Romantic Mountaineering

Peter Spratley, Wordsworth’s Walking Aesthetic

Gary Harrison, The Poetics of Acknowledgment: John Clare

James Castell, The Society of Birds in Home at Grasmere

Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey, ‘Kubla Khan’ and Orientalism: The Roads to and from Xanadu

Saeko Yoshikawa, Wordsworth in the Guides

Daniel Robinson, Mary Robinson and the Della Crusca Network

Erica McAlpine, Keats’s Might: Subjunctive Verbs in the Late Poems

Fay Yao, ‘Old Romance’ and New Narrators: A Reading of Keats’s ‘Isabella’ and ‘The Eve of St Agnes’

Anthony John Harding, The Fate of Reading in the Regency

Ken Johnston, Wordsworth at Forty: Memoirs of a Lost Generation

Richard Gravil, Is The Excursion a ‘metrical Novel?’

Seamus Perry, Wordsworth’s Pluralism

About the author

Richard Gravil is Secretary of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation and Director of the Summer Conference 2007-2010, and of the Wordsworth Winter School. He is author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (2000), of Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842 (2003), and of Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (2010). Hehas edited or co-edited nine books, including collections of essays on Coleridge, Swift, Wordsworth, Anglo-American Poetry and Nineteenth Century Fiction.